San Mateo, California, United States · Hybrid
$295k–$345k/yr
Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblo…
Skills: Backend Engineering, Distributed Systems, Go, NoSQL, AI/ML Platform Integration
San Mateo, California, United States · Hybrid
$200k–$250k/yr
About Faros Software engineering is undergoing the largest transformation in its history. As organizations invest heavily in AI for software development, they're facing a new set of questions: Where is AI actually being …
Skills: Software Engineering, AI Agent Design, Workflow Automation, Evaluation Frameworks, Data Systems
San Mateo, California, United States · Hybrid
$170k–$240k/yr
Skydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight, the key technology for the future of drones and aerial mobility. The Skydio team combines deep expertise in artificial intelligence, best-…
Skills: Cloud Platforms Architecture, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Integration, Terraform, Go
San Mateo, California, United States · Hybrid
$243k–$295k/yr
Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblo…
Skills: Kubernetes Networking, Cilium, eBPF, Large-scale Systems, Infrastructure Design
San Mateo, California, United States · Hybrid
$164k–$201k/yr
Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblo…
Skills: Technical Animation, Rigging, Skin Weighting, Maya, Blender
San Mateo, California, United States · On-site
$200k–$300k/yr
Who We Are Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality senso…
Skills: Threat Modeling, Security Design Review, AWS, GCP, Python
San Mateo, California, United States · On-site
$200k–$300k/yr
Who We Are Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality senso…
Skills: Threat Modeling, Security Design Review, AWS, GCP, Python
San Mateo, California, United States · Hybrid
$269k–$326k/yr
Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblo…
Skills: Identity And Access Management, AI Agent Security, Distributed Backend Applications, Python, Java
San Mateo, California, United States · Hybrid
$197k–$243k/yr
Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblo…
Skills: Distributed Backend Systems, Microservices, Game Engines, C++, C#
San Mateo, California, United States · Hybrid
$197k–$243k/yr
Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblo…
Skills: Machine Learning Engineering, Anomaly Detection, Distributed Systems, Time-Series Modeling, Data Pipeline Development
San Mateo, California, United States · Hybrid
$399k–$458k/yr
Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblo…
Skills: Machine Learning, Distributed Systems, Data Architecture, Model Extraction, Natural Language Processing
San Mateo, California, United States · On-site
$18/hr–$25/hr
Position Summary Vector Fleet Management, an Amerit Fleet Solutions Company, is looking to hire a skilled Light Duty Technician! The Light Duty Technician is responsible for the timely repair and maintenance of light to …
Skills: Vehicle Maintenance, Preventative Maintenance, Safety Inspections, Manual Transmission Operation, Computer Proficiency
San Mateo, California, United States · Hybrid
About the Team Genesis Molecular AI is building an agentic IDE for drug discovery—a platform that helps scientists explore, design, and optimize molecules with the assistance of cutting-edge AI. Our Product Engineering T…
Skills: Engineering Management, System Architecture, Distributed Systems, Cloud Infrastructure, Full-stack Development
San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
$96k–$164k/yr
Job Description: Rakuten International is a division of Rakuten Group, Inc., a Japanese global technology leader in services that empower individuals, communities, businesses and society. Headquartered in San Mateo, Cali…
Skills: Java/J2EE, Node.js, RESTful APIs, Cloud Platforms, AWS
San Mateo, California, United States · On-site
$200k–$300k/yr
Who We Are Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality senso…
Skills: Regulatory Compliance, IoT Security, Technical Documentation, Cross-functional Collaboration, Project Management
San Mateo, California, United States · Hybrid
$197k–$243k/yr
Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblo…
Skills: C#, Go, Rust, Java, C++
San Mateo, California, United States · Hybrid
$201k–$302k/yr
Why Sony Interactive Entertainment? Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. A…
Skills: People Management, Android AOSP, Java, Kotlin, Performance Optimization
San Mateo, California, United States · Hybrid
$197k–$243k/yr
Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblo…
Skills: Backend Engineering, Full Stack Engineering, Distributed Systems, API Design, C#
San Mateo, California, United States · On-site
The Role Own Luminary's aerospace vertical end-to-end as a consultative, outcome-based sale: client development, engagement scoping, deal closure, account expansionEngage at CEO, CTO, and Chief Engineer level across aero…
Skills: Consultative Selling, Aerospace Industry Expertise, Account Expansion, Strategic Planning, Engagement Scoping
San Mateo, California, United States · On-site
$70k–$150k/yr
Company Overview At Skild AI, we are building the world's first general purpose robotic intelligence that is robust and adapts to unseen scenarios without failing. We believe massive scale through data-driven machine lea…
Skills: Mechanical Assembly, Wiring And Harnessing, Calibration, Soldering, CAD Reading
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Serve as the hands-on tech lead for the Safety Foundation team, overseeing the architecture and implementation of a scalable, AI-first safety platform. You will define backend standards and partner with cross-functional teams to integrate safety capabilities across Roblox.
Requires 8+ years of experience in large-scale backend systems and 4+ years of technical leadership. Proficiency in Go and experience with NoSQL databases and AI/ML platform integration are strongly preferred.
Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.
At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.
A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
At Roblox, we strive to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and the Safety organization’s mission is to become the leader in civil immersive online communities. We systematically detect, remove, and prevent problematic content and behavior, and we make Roblox accounts secure and free from compromise. We cover a broad area of the tech spectrum, including machine learning, classifiers for 3D models, experimentation, automation, detection workflows, and AI-powered text filters. Aligned and partnering with product teams, we use this toolbelt to discover new opportunities, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build safety products, and measure the impact on our community of users and developers. In doing so, we keep Roblox safe, civil, and inclusive, and we foster positive relationships between people around the world.
Why Safety Foundation?
Safety Foundation is the infrastructure backbone that powers safety across Roblox. Every piece of content reviewed, every moderation action taken, every safety workflow running anywhere on the platform flows through systems built by this team. We are the platform that other safety teams build on — and right now, we're in the middle of one of the most significant evolutions in our history.
We're scaling to handle 10x more traffic while keeping cost growth in check. We're rebuilding the platform to be AI-first, natively supporting agentic and ML-driven safety workflows without compromising on security or auditability. And we're radically improving developer velocity — cutting the time it takes any team to integrate safety capabilities from months to hours.
As a Principal Software Engineer on Safety Foundation, you'll be the hands-on tech lead for a group of engineers on the team. You'll set technical direction, own architecture decisions, and stay deeply engaged in the work. Your decisions will shape how safety works across all of Roblox — for over 100+ daily monthly active users.
For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page.
Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.
For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.
Reimagining the way people come together.
Roblox's vision is to reimagine the way people come together. Our mission is to connect a billion people with optimism and civility. What is Roblox? Roblox is a platform where people come together virtually to share experiences. Every day, tens of millions of people from around the world come to Roblox to learn, work, play, connect, communicate, and socialize in immersive digital experiences all built by a global community of creators. Powered by Creators Roblox is powered by a global community of millions of developers and creators who produce their own immersive multiplayer experiences each month using Roblox Studio, our intuitive desktop design tool. Any experience imaginable can be created on Roblox. How Popular? Roblox is ranked as one of the top entertainment platforms for audiences under the age of 18 based on average monthly visits and time spent (Comscore). Our popularity is driven purely by the community with millions of people signing up through word of mouth every month.
Offices: 970 Park Pl, San Mateo, California 94403, US
Based on 111 listings with disclosed salaries, most engineering jobs in San Mateo, CA pay between $147k–$296k per year. Individual offers vary with seniority, company size, and specialization.
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